The Struggle for Sea Power: A Naval History of the American Revolution

by Sam Willis

Book Overview

The American Revolution involved a naval war of immense scope and variety, including no fewer than twenty-two navies fighting on five oceans--to say nothing of rivers and lakes. In no other war were so many large-scale fleet battles fought, one of which was the most strategically significant naval battle in all of British, French, and American history. Simultaneous naval campaigns were fought in the English Channel, the North and Mid-Atlantic,...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0393239926
• ISBN13: 9780393239928
• Release Date: February 2016
• Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
• Length: 608 Pages
• Weight: 2.39 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.6" x 6.2" x 9.4"